Meg O'Brien

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1990
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Jessica James Mystery

1 - The Daphne Decisions (Feb-1990)
2 - Salmon in the Soup (Aug-1990)
3 - Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow (Apr-1991)
4 - Eagles Die Too (Aug-1992)
5 - A Bright Flamingo Shroud (1997)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The Daphne Decisions

    A Jessica James Mystery - 1

    Awakening in a hospital bed badly bruised and beaten and with no memory of the event that put her in the hospital, Jessica James is puzzled by the arrival of a powerful local judge, who claims that Jessica is his missing daughter-in-law, Daphne...

  • Salmon in the Soup

    A Jessica James Mystery - 2

    SHE'S ONE CRIME REPORTER WHO CAN HOLD HER OWN WITH ANY MAN. A SMART LADY IN A TOUGH BUSINESS. BUT THAT'S OKAY--SHE MEANS BUSINESS ...Mystery usually follows murder, but when Baby Cakes Sloan bites the bullet, everybody in Rochester already knows whod...

  • Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow

    A Jessica James Mystery - 3

    When reporter Jessica James suspects that her mother is responsible for stealing a valuable painting of a rabbit, mother and daughter find themselves steeped in the intrigues of the art world, and a forty-year-old murder case...

  • Eagles Die Too

    A Jessica James Mystery - 4

    While writing a story for "Newsweek" on a school for bodyguards, Jesse James is joined by her mother and her mother's new husband, Charlie, but when Charlie disappears, Jesse must change from stringer to sleuth...

  • High Trail to Danger

    In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life...

  • The Keeper

    Brooke Hayes is slowly piecing her life back together after eight months on the wagon: rebuilding the acting career she'd exchanged for a stifling marriage, putting her bitter divorce behind her, and trying to regain custody of her nine-year-old daug...

  • Thin Ice

    Suspecting foul play when her sister's car takes a fatal plunge into the Potomac River, Nicole Ryan tries to learn the truth about a mysterious notebook her sister left behind and the scientific discovery that someone was desperate to conceal. Reprin...

  • I'll Love You Till I Die

    A WOMAN'S DESPERATE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH PLUNGES HER INTO A WEB OF DECEPTION, DESIRE, AND DANGEROUS OBSESSION. Joanna Carr awakens in a hospital after six months in a catatonic state, only to be told that her beloved husband, David, has been bruta...

  • A Deep and Dreamless Sleep

    A high-powered attorney and full-blooded Wintu Indian, Naomi Wing returns to her Native American roots after a series of visions about a young girl's murder and must face the girl's mother and the heritage she has denied to learn the shocking truth a...



  • A Bright Flamingo Shroud

    A Jessica James Mystery - 5

    Jesse James has learned never to rely on the men in her life. When the going gets tough, they're sure to leave. Just like the grandfather she never knew. But now her grandfather is back--if the man who knocked on her door is who he claims to be.He's ...

  • Take My Breath Away

    Bearing a haunting resemblance to a long-dead Hawaiian princess, Kate McKenna is followed by a mysterious stranger who holds the answers to a curse that has been handed down in her family for generations and now threatens Kate...

  • Crashing Down

    Long ago, Carrie Holt had accepted the legacy of her traumatic childhood, tucking the memories away where they couldn't hurt her. And until now she's succeeded in putting her past behind her. She's a successful writer, on the brink of becoming a best...

  • Sacred Trust

    Abby Northrope has everything a woman could want. A wonderful home in Carmel-by-the-Sea, a wealthy lawyer husband, a wide circle of friends and a secure place in the community. She has everything…until Marti Bright, Abby's best friend from school d...

  • Gathering Lies

    Six women have come to Thornberry, a small writers' colony on a tiny island off the coast of Seattle. They have come to work on their own writing at this secluded resort, but they have also come to hide, each harboring her own secret. A devastati...

  • Crimson Rain

    Paul and Gina Bradley did all they could to create the perfect family. When they discovered they could not have children of their own, they adopted twin girls, intent on giving them a good home. But something was terribly wrong with Angela, one of th...

  • The Last Cheerleader // Shadow of Innocence

    Successful L.A. literary agent Mary Beth Conahan has come a long way from her troubled past. But when Mary Beth's ex-husband and her bestselling author are killed, she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. And if that's not bad enoug...

  • The Final Kill

    Abby Northrup finally has the quiet life she's dreamed of, living in Carmel at the former monastery she purchased and renovated. But The Prayer House is more than a peaceful home for Abby -- unofficially it is an underground safe haven for abused wom...

  • The Last Cheerleader

  • The Cutest Little Kracken

    Karl, The Cutest Little Kraken, lives with his mom in the Big Wide ocean. All Karl wants is to be happy and meet new friends, but every time he tries everyone runs away scared, until one day he meets a new friend in the strangest of places....



  • Wood Spirits

    • / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

    Do you believe in communication between the spirit and human worlds? Imagine on New Year’s Day you and your sister are strolling toward the Cathedral in St. Augustine and you pass a bed of pansies waving in the Florida breeze. You turn to her and d...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Meg O'Brien has published 20 books.

Meg O'Brien does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Cutest Little Kracken, was published in January 2023.

The first book by Meg O'Brien, The Daphne Decisions, was published in February 1990.

Yes. Meg O'Brien has 1 series.
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